My program

emlyon business school’s MSc in Strategic Intelligence & Global Risks equips tomorrow’s leaders to turn uncertainty into competitive awareness for competitive advantage. Operating at the crossroads of geopolitics, risk management, collective intelligence and corporate strategy, the program trains future professionals to implement an intelligence strategy to collect, analyze and disseminate insights and trends analyses that shape high‑stakes decisions.**.

Develop proficiency in strategic intelligence techniques, global risk control and power dynamics to optimize organizations’ decision-making processes

Course modules:

Missions and challenges of Strategic Intelligences
*Inform, protect, influence *Strategic competitive intelligence for business *Typolohie of IS models, economic warfare

Strategic intelligence and knowledge management
*Systemic and complex thinking, knowledge management *Methodology for and efficient monitoring

Mastering Global Risks
*Developing your geopoloticial intelligence *Understansting cyber risks *Evaluate environmental risks

Implementing a global risk culture within the company
*Anthropological knowledge of societies *Impact of sovereignty policies *Changes and organisation culture
 

Develop the ability to gather and analyze information to support strategic decision-making and drive business performance, in standard and crisis.


Course modules:

Influencing social & geopolitical actors
*Corporate Geopolitical Risks & Responsability *North/South non market strategy, lobbying *Working with or for think tanks

Advanced collective intelligence & distributed cognition
*Cognition Activity , information & disinformation, bounded  rationality vs sense making *Business case disinformation

Practicing Offensive Strategic Intelligence
*HUMINT (Human intel) *OSINT (Open Source intel)

Expertise in Strategic intelligence
*Internal Influence, networks, intelligence operations planning *Financial activism, counter activism & ESG

Performing organisational crisis
*Advanced management in crisis situations

Bridging Strategy, Market Intelligence, and Data Sociology for Competitive Advantage
*New strategic practices: coping with paradoxes in organisation *Transforming Market Data into Competitive Advantage *Sociology of data : mental models from available data to uncertainty

Rapidly professionalizing experts in strategic intelligence and risk management, equipping them with practical skills to analyze, anticipate, and advise in high-stakes environments. Through hands-on training and real-world case studies, future managers develop operational expertise in crisis management, cybersecurity, and influence strategies.


Course modules:

Risks anticipation methods
*Scriptwriting workshop for operational risk management *Data visualization, War Room, Cartography, Matrix Game

Cyber strategy & Cyber protection
*Cybersecurity, cyberdefense, Info Warfare

Practice of influence – internal & external consulting
*Consulting int/ext *Information warfare Digital & network techniques to influence stakeholders

PROFESSIONAL THESIS

To conclude your graduate studies, you will have to write a professional thesis. The topic will be chosen in coordination with your academic supervisor and must be in line with your missions during your internship or first job.

The objectives of the Master’s Thesis are to:

• Identify a topic addressed during one of your courses or academic activities.
• Build a research framework around concepts and bibliographic resources.
• Build hypotheses and a methodology to validate or invalidate them.
• Collect data using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods.
• Provide a critical analysis based on objective observation.
• Recommend solutions, best practices, or strategies.
• Present a well-structured, relevant discussion with a proper conclusion.

INTERNSHIP

The professional mission will last from 4 to 6 months and can be an internship, a VIE (international volunteering mission), an entrepreneurial project, a fixed-term contract or a permanent contract. This is a great opportunity to put your academic knowledge to the test and acquire tangible experience within the industry. The school will give you all the support and tools you need to find the right job for you.